Preliminary Guide to the "Incidents of the War" Civil War Photograph Albums
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© 2002
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Preliminary Guide to the "Incidents of the War" Civil War Photograph Albums, ca. 1980s
Collection number: Wyles Mss 54
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara- Department of Special Collections
- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- Phone: (805) 893-3062
- Fax: (805) 893-5749
- Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html
- Processed by:
- D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- 25 November 2002
- Encoded by:
- David C. Gartrell
© 2002 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Title: "Incidents of the War" Civil War Photograph Albums,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1980s
Collection Number: Wyles Mss 54
Collector:
Katz, D. Mark
Extent:
.8 linear feet
(2 albums)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Vault
Language:
English.
None.
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"Incidents of the War" Civil War Photograph Albums. Wyles Mss 54. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University
of California, Santa Barbara.
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Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains two photograph albums with 100 images, reproductions of Civil War era notables such as Abraham Lincoln,
Ulysses S. Grant, and Robert E. Lee, as well as Civil War sites and battle scenes. Originals were taken by photographers such
as George N. Barnard, Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, James Gardner, David Knox, and Timothy H. O'Sullivan from 1861 to 1865.
The albums were produced by D. Mark Katz, Americana Antique-o-graph, ca. 1980s. UCSB copy is No. 2.
D. Mark Katz also published a short-lived (1986-1988) magazine by the same name,
Incidents of the War, for Civil War collectors and enthusiasts, and wrote related books -
Custer in Photographs (1985) and
Witness to an Era: The Life and Photographs of Alexander Gardner: The Civil War, Lincoln, and the West (1991).
There is no container list for this collection.
Box 1
Two scrapbook albums